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James Fishkin’s first attempt at a national deliberative poll in the United States fell short in 1992; however, the National Issues Convention, his second attempt was held in 1996. The $4 Million project coincided with the 1996 election season and featured almost 500 randomly selected participants meeting in Austin, Texas...

Albany City Council in Western Australia requested to have their administration building relocated to an area outside of the city centre. The state government refused permission. The state department for planning and infrastructure was not convinced that the city council had sufficiently consulted with the Albany community, and it decided...

A large-scale three-day deliberation that asked citizens to address the question of how the Australian government could be strengthened to better serve the people. 13 proposals were developed and presented to the Australian Parliament. This event also provides an important vault of resources for future research.

In the Australian consensus conference a lay panel of 14 people were bought together, it took place in south Australia in the Canberra's Old Parliament House over the course of three days. The issue which the conference dealt with was GMOs in food Genetically modified foods, and whether it should...